all things Halloween, being arts & craft-y, sewing, fashion design, costuming, gothic fashion, evocative dark imagery, dark music (goth, metal, etc), art history, Religious artwork, Victoriana, the Pre-Raphaelites (especially Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones), Classical Mythology, Egyptology, classical culture, European History, traveling to new places, hopeless romanticism, writing, reading, introspection, waterfalls, puppets, marionettes, harlequins, dolls, carnivals, the circus, graveyards, churches, etc... Oh, and being a cartoon.
I'd like to meet:
A bunch of dead artists... and some live ones too.
For the record, I only really add people who I know in real life, or artists/musicians who inspire me. I wouldn't have time to keep up with people otherwise, and I don't see the point in adding people here unless I do.
Music:
My favorite music makes me feel something that nothing else can imitate. It is sacred.
Some of my favorite artists: (MANY are missing)
Genres: Goth, goth metal, dark/apocalyptic folk, darkwave, old-school goth rock, deathrock, black metal, dark electronic and spooky carnivalesque music.
I get lost in the sounds of cellos, violins, and exotic oriental instruments.
Movies:
The Nightmare Before Christmas, Bram Stoker's Dracula (i.e. the Francis Ford Coppola version), The Dark Crystal, Legend, Tim Burton, Corpse Bride, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow, Interview with the Vampire, Fearless Vampire Killers, Nosferatu (both versions - for different reasons!), Shadow of the Vampire, La Cité des Enfants Perdus (The City of Lost Children), The Ninth Gate, Willow, The Princess Bride, House of a Thousand Corpses, Shaun of the Dead, The Crow, Dark City, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Thesis, Being John Malkovich... I'll come back to this later.
Books:
My favorite authors and works include: Milton's Paradise Lost, William Blake, Dante's Inferno, Edgar Allan Poe, Goethe's Faust, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, gothic tales, historical fiction, books that deal with religious (and anti-religious) themes, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Umberto Eco, Isabel Allende, dark fantasy. Older Anne Rice books (especially the first 3 Vampire Chronicles, Memnoch the Devil, and Cry to Heaven), Ray Bradbury (especially Something Wicked This Way Comes), Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, Michael Ende's The Neverending Story, Harry Potter, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, twisted fairy tales, Halloween picture books, Roman Dirge, Lenore, Gloom Cookie, Nick Cave - And the Ass Saw the Angel, Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray, Patrick Suskind - Perfume, Milan Kundera, Genesis and the Book of Revelations (yes, as in the Bible).
